On June 23, 1288 Folco Portinari, the father of Beatrice, the woman who inspired the poetry of Dante, donated the land in Florence upon which the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital was to be built. It is an...
The Botanical Garden, called also “Giardino dei Semplici”, created by the Medicis as a garden for medicinal plants (the “ Simples”) in 1545, are among the oldest Gardens in the world. Between the 16th...
The Ferragamo Museum was established in 1995 by Ferragamo family, with the aim of introducing the artistic qualities of Salvatore Ferragamo, the founder of the eponymous company, and his innovations...
The museum is named after its creator, the famous antiquarian Stefano Bardini. The old building that houses it, transformed with the neo-romantic taste of the time (around 1880), became the show-room...
The Stibbert Museum, conceived by Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906), is a rare example of a 19th-century museum: an extraordinary collection of arms, armour and works of art is displayed in a series of...
The Museo Pietro Annigoni inside Villa Bardini is devoted to the eclectic artist who, in Florence in the creatively thriving period between the two world wars, experimented and expressed his...
The Museo Novecento, on piazza Santa Maria Novella, is dedicated to 20th-century Italian art, presenting a selection of works from the civic collections which focuses on Italian art of the first half...
The Bargello National Museum is a place of extraordinary interest. The evocative medieval building houses a unique collection of Italian sculpture, mainly from the Renaissance period (masterpieces by...
Having become a museum, the historic gallery of the antiquarian Luigi Bellini occupies a noble residence by the Arno; of 15th-century origin, it was renovated at the beginning of the last century. The...
The Marino Marini Museum, dedicated to the famous 20th-century Italian sculptor, is housed in the former church of San Pancrazio, where Renaissance lines are combined with modern renovation. It is a...
The museum, formerly the ‘Museum of the History of Science’ of Florence, is dedicated to the famous Tuscan scientist, Galileo Galilei, to whom we owe great astronomical discoveries and the birth of...
The Synagogue Inaugurated in 1882, the Florence Synagogue is considered one of the most beautiful in Italy and is characterised by its large copper-green dome, part of the Florentine skyline. It was...
The museum is housed in a medieval house once owned by the rich and powerful Mozzi family , merchants and papal treasurers for several generations. Because of a series of financial misadventures, they...
Occupying the first floor of the historic Convent of the Oblate Nuns, the museum has a rich collection of original items and reproductions illustrating the history of the human race from the Stone Age...
The Santa Maria Novella Complex includes a series of striking rooms, adjacent to the Basilica, decorated from the 14th century onwards. Of great impact is the Green Cloister, entirely frescoed by...
The Botany Section has the most important herbarium in Italy, with about four million specimens. It contains historic collections of dried plants, including one of the oldest (1563) still existing...
The exhibition is dedicated to the fossils of large mammals, mollusks, and plants that illustrate the history of paleontology and are precious witnesses of the Earth's past. Of great impact are the s...
La Specola Museum, which is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, is the oldest scientific museum open to the public: it will celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2025! The...
The first Italian museum about the Masonic ideology, established a few hundred meters far from Via Maggio, where, in 1731, a group of Englishmen, during their meetings in a hotel, founded the First...
The biomedical collections are conserved in the Careggi Hospital and consist of two sections: the Anatomy Museum, housing bone specimens (with a very rich collection of skulls), dry preparations...
